School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór
- Location:
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0358, Page 170
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- (continued from previous page)great game in olden times. It was carried on along the public roads on Sunday evenings. The bowls were round lumps of iron about 28 ounces in weight.
- Tim Murphy (carpenter) Knocknagree, Maurice Walsh of Glencollins Michael Murphy and Morgan Sweeney's father in law were the best bowlers in this part of the country. Denis Herlihy Knocknagree (my father) and Michael Cronin Nohival were fairly good bowlers. The men played for drink and the losers treated the winners with a pint of porter. There was once men playing bowl in Gneevguilla and one of the men struck a boy with a bowl and nearly killed him. The police stopped the bowling and there was no bowling there(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dómhnall Ó hÍarfhlatha
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Bean Uí Shíotcáin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 86
- Address
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork
